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From Conversations with History, an interview with Avner Cohen, author of The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb. Louis Theroux spends time with ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers and discovers a small, but very committed subculture. Israel and Jordan once worked together for peace — now their alliance is collapsing, driven apart by the issue of refugee resettlement, and Jordan may be turning to Iran. Meir Dagan, recently retired as chief of the Mossad, wanted to reestablish the agency as a powerful deterrent to Israel’s enemies; with a string of daring operations, he succeeded. The Dubai Job: Last year, an elite squad of Mossad hit men finally got their target — they never thought the whole world would be watching. Yigal Amir assassinated Yitzhak Rabin 15 years ago in an effort to derail the Oslo peace accords; now his wife, a Russian emigre, is trying to turn him into a heroic Soviet-style political prisoner. Proposals that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Mahmoud Abbas made in 2008 offer a path to a deal amid the region’s turmoil. The Mideast Maverick: Sari Nusseibeh, the president of Al-Quds University, has long defied conventional wisdom — now he's proposing a new route to peace in the Middle East (and more and more and more). Palestinian rappers are returning to hip hop’s political roots — just don’t ask them to fix the Arab-Israeli conflict. The sleep of reason: In Ariel Sharon’s six-year coma, an Israeli finds artistic inspiration.

From The Hill, an interview with Jane Carmichael, Onion News Network's Washington correspondent. One benefit to a world hooked on oil and gas? Al Jazeera. WikiLeaks and Glenn Beck show that journalism is becoming more influential — but also more reductive. Is ideological innovation possible in online journalism? Jay Rosen on the politics of the new Huffington Post at AOL. Reboot camp: Aspiring and seasoned US journalists alike are looking to tech-savvy graduate schools to help them survive and thrive in a new multimedia environment. Yesterday’s Heroes: Can we rescue great photojournalism? Some rules for the road for 21st century journalism: An excerpt from Dan Gillmor's Mediactive. Former Guardian science editor, letters editor, arts editor and literary editor Tim Radford has condensed his journalistic experience into a handy set of rules for aspiring hacks. Newspaper journalism is on its way out, regrets the former foreign correspondent and Browser co-founder Robert Cottrell; he chooses four novels that reflect the golden days and a style guide that is an equally fine work of imagination. Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has never been a man to mince words, especially when it comes to what he insists is the future of journalism — cartoon news. If you edited an alt weekly, what would you do? Lisa Pease on what the media would look like if it were actually liberal. The Fact-Free Zone: Could making it easier to sue news organizations make them more honest?